This sounds like a rather interesting book, overall - I think I must add it to my to-read pile (which means, at my current rate, that I might be reading it within the next ten years or so....)

trying to transcribe modern languages into ancient Greek and then retranscribe them into modern English

Lord. I don't even... what makes someone try to do something like that? Kind of incredible. I've hardly got your expertise, so I'd have probably just wondered about 'Ades and Xirokee, never really figuring out what's behind them.

(Umh, hi. Yes. In the case you're wondering about random comments from random strangers, I added your journal a little while ago, just cause you seemed like an interesting person, so... hi.)